Locality 13 [St Lucia Fm] (Cretaceous of South Africa)

Where: South Africa (28.4° S, 32.2° E: paleocoordinates 46.2° S, 18.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: St Lucia Formation, Middle Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Presumably from the St Lucia Fm, which regionally overlies the Umzamba Fm. THICKNESS: Unknown bed and section thickness. AGE: Coniacian II-III = Middle Coniacian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone

• ENVIRONMENT: No detailed environmental data reported in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology, presumably with siltstone matrix based on lithologies of adjacent beds. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, assumed on the basis of facies descriptions from regionally dominant lithology, and figures from subsequent publications (e.g. Kennedy and Kinger 1977).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Kennedy & Klinger in 1970-1971; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: Collected by authors (W. Kennedy and H. Klinger) during 1970-1971. REPOSITORY: BMNH.

Primary reference: H. C. Klinger and W. J. Kennedy. 1989. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite family Placenticeratidae Hyatt, 1900; with comments on the systematic position of the genus Hypengonoceras Spath, 1924. Annals of the South African Museum 98(9):241-408 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82451: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to ammonites, though brachiopods, gastropods and bivalvia may be present though not covered in present taxonomic treatment. NOMENCLATURE: From authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Forresteria (Forresteria) alluaudi2 Boule et al. 1907 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae
Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) theobaldianum1 Stolickza 1865 ammonite
SUBSPECIES: K. (K.) theobaldianum crassicostata
Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) jonesi1 Collignon 1965 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae
Placenticeras kaffrarium Etheridge 1904 ammonite